As she curled up into a tight ball and began sobbing, I realized it wasn’t me she’d screamed at. I don’t even think she knew I was there until I reached out and lightly touched her shoulder. I’d never had much practice at comforting children, especially ones that looked exactly like a fresh, innocent, untouched, virginal, naked, budding, pure, stopstopstopstopstop.
I rebalanced my disappointed hormones and resolved to platonically comfort the little girl. It wasn’t easy, but by the time she looked up at me with startled, tear-filled eyes, it wasn’t hard, either.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m… I’m not hurt. I’m not there. And I’m not alone. I think that’s okay enough for now.”
She had the same voice, too.
“I’ve got a little food in my cave, and furs and hides that you can cover up with. It’s not much, but…”
Her eyes narrowed at the word cave, then widened at furs and hides. “Where the hell am I?!?”
“Beats me, kid; I was dumped here ten years ago by a woman who looked like a 20-year-old you, and I’ve been alone ever since.”
“Oh crap, her. I am not okay any more.”
I couldn’t figure out why all documents in one folder had a yellow tint to them, or why one document in that folder also had a different icon, one that I couldn’t change or reset to match the others. After far too much futile mac-dinking and failed googling, I discovered that I’d somehow managed to type Command-8 at some point in the past, converting that document to Screenplay mode, which also affected the color of adjacent non-screenplay documents.
Markdown formatting and simple HTML accepted.
Sometimes you have to double-click to enter text in the form (interaction between Isso and Bootstrap?). Tab is more reliable.